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Deathmatch solution to lack of gear

Feature Requests

Instead of running either BYOG or presets we could give players an option to either BYOG or play in a legendary preset by changing the mode from Solos to Solos Preset and both the modes queue into the same games. Ungemmed legendary is worse than normal purple gear so it wouldn’t be unbalanced but it would give new players or players without gear for a class they want to try out a fair chance and also simplify BYOG vs preset.

Arena is probably coming soon but I am not sure what it will be like.

Posted by fishes23 ·
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  • strife480

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    Oct 3, 2025

    I agree to this, having found it difficult to get good enough gear to compete myself, I have been on the receiving end of a good steamroll after joining arenas with green or blue gear against epic or legendary geared players.

    @Notorious
    Preset gear seems like the way to go with arenas, especially starting with next season when it becomes a permanent feature, because it can give players a quick option to bang heads with each other without having to prefarm gear and mats and it also evens out the playing field, everyone has access to the same options which they can combine however they want.

    BYOG could be kept as a separate option/bracket or for some last man standing type tournaments where players who get killed lose their gear to the winner.


    Fishes is also right that the preset system is poorly optimized at the moment, giving only some legendary items and not others, not giving items with gems, giving locked-in class pouch items and so on, however, it can be better and I think I know how.

    You can add a squire type vendor in the vendors section that is carrying all of your gear for you to browse and choose before each battle. The concept is the same as one of those placeholder NPCs on WoW PTR servers that has all the gear and you choose whichever you want, with whatever gems and enchants you want so that you may go out there and do your thing as soon as possible.

    The squire vendor should have a list of all weapons and armor in legendary form, a list of all rings(green + blue + legendary, because there is value in each of them, there are builds for some classes that make the best use of green rings for example) a list of all blue gems and the option to socket your selected items with said gems(like the Enchantress), a list of all the class tools and a list of all potions and bandages.

    Once the desired gear has been selected by the player, they should have the option to lock it in for the next arena/arenas, with use ONLY in this environment.

    Press join queue and have fun! :p

    • fishes23

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      Oct 4, 2025

      We will probably get arena in 19 days.